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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Mapping the Life and Death of Jean Lalime. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Map of “Chicago in 1812” from. By Juliette Kinzie, daughter-in-law of the man who killed Jean Lalime. Digital Image from the Newberry Library. This semester I’ve been working with my Loyola colleagues Amber. To develop an online exhibit about the life and death of Jean Lalime. Lalime is often billed as “ Chicago’s First Murder Victim. 2 Comments →. Old and New: Digitizing History.
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Mapping the Life and Death of Jean Lalime | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Mapping the Life and Death of Jean Lalime. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Map of “Chicago in 1812” from. By Juliette Kinzie, daughter-in-law of the man who killed Jean Lalime. Digital Image from the Newberry Library. This semester I’ve been working with my Loyola colleagues Amber. To develop an online exhibit about the life and death of Jean Lalime. Lalime is often billed as “ Chicago’s First Murder Victim. 2 Comments →. 17 April 2016 at 6:11 pm. Thanks for articu...
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Digital Sustainability Through Consolidation at the University of Iowa | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Digital Sustainability Through Consolidation at the University of Iowa. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. The Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. At the University of Iowa coordinates an impressive and growing range of digital projects. In addition to hosting collections ranging from Historic Iowa Children’s Diaries. In the Iowa Digital Library. To records of Social Justice. Campaigns undergoing crowd-sourced transcription at DIY History. Gains long-term susta...
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Photoshop, GIMP & Image Manipulation for History Exhibits. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Digitization makes it easy to crop, combine, or touch up historic images before putting them on exhibit. There are many tools for this job, with Adobe Photoshop. As the name brand professional choice. For my own projects, however, I usually prefer another app: GIMP. Collaging and Layering 2D Images for Display. By AT Andreas, 1884. One way to liven up these gray images while ...
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Readings | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Bryan Alexander on Mobile Storytelling. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. In Chapter 9 of his book. The New Digital Storytelling. Continue reading ». Be The First To Comment →. On Patricia Crain’s “Children of Media, Children as Media”. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Demonstration of the Semaphore. Public Doman image at Musee des Arts et Metiers, via Wikimedia Commons. Continue reading ». 1 Comment →. Follow publichistory.media on WordPress.com. Bull; RSS Feed.
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Videos in an Online Exhibit: Culinary Curiosity | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Videos in an Online Exhibit: Culinary Curiosity. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. In this video at the Culinary Curiosity Exhibition. At Kendall College, Mel Mickevic and Christopher Koetke demonstrate a “ Universal Mayonnaise Mixer and Cream Whipper. Videos enrich the modality of online exhibits by adding movement, tempo, and sound to accompany still images and text. The. Exhibition website hosted by Kendall College. Although the videos at. Does show its age in a f...
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Putting History Online: Some Considerations | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Putting History Online: Some Considerations. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Manuscript digitization at e-codices. The Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Flickr. Photo 2012 e-codices, CC BY-NC 2.0 License. The first step for any public history project, even before considering technology, should be to determine the project’s purpose and set out its intended audiences and outcomes. What is the theme of an exhibition? Assessing and Allocating Resources. Whenev...
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Bryan Alexander on Mobile Storytelling | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Bryan Alexander on Mobile Storytelling. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. In Chapter 9 of his book. The New Digital Storytelling. To specific city apps like Street Museum Londinium. HistoryPin, by contrast, provides all of its functionality through an increasingly mobile-friendly website. In 2015, it announced that it was discontinuing its iOS and Android apps. Not all mobile storytelling requires a highly technical delivery format, of course. One of the most int...
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Reflections as the Semester Ends. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Mundelein Center at Loyola University Chicago. As the spring semester draws to a close this week, I can safely say that I gained a lot from Loyola’s course in Public History and New Media. Among the many helpful readings this semester, Gitelman and Pingree’s. Or collaboratively coding open source software at sites such as GitHub. 8216;s introduction to some of the ins and outs of video production and...
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Reflections as the Semester Ends | publichistory.media
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Exploring new interfaces to the past. Reflections as the Semester Ends. Middot; Posted by Joshua Wachuta. Mundelein Center at Loyola University Chicago. As the spring semester draws to a close this week, I can safely say that I gained a lot from Loyola’s course in Public History and New Media. Among the many helpful readings this semester, Gitelman and Pingree’s. Or collaboratively coding open source software at sites such as GitHub. 8216;s introduction to some of the ins and outs of video production and...